Kathy Goldschmidt🫘
@kgoldschmidt.bsky.social
Retired democracy, congressional reform, and civic tech researcher and writer. Now a full-time nomad and obsessive doom scroller. 🫘
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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court decided national injunctions by district courts “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted federal courts.”
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
It’s mourning in America.
The moral arc of the universe is being bent back toward injustice.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
It’s mourning in America.
The moral arc of the universe is being bent back toward injustice.
www.supremecourt.gov
June 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court decided national injunctions by district courts “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted federal courts.”
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
It’s mourning in America.
The moral arc of the universe is being bent back toward injustice.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
It’s mourning in America.
The moral arc of the universe is being bent back toward injustice.
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*Biden tries to forgive student loans*
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.
*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.
*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
June 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
*Biden tries to forgive student loans*
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.
*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.
*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
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Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
WASHINGTON—Despite polls that show the American public overwhelmingly supports keeping the ancient burial chamber sealed, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday to pry open the evil tomb of Batibat, a ven...
theonion.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat
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It’s pretty startling that it’s become a feature of the Roberts Court that they save the most outrageous and infuriating usurpations of the Constitution for the last day they are in session and then disappear for months onto the planes and boats of the billionaire friends safe from public scrutiny.
June 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It’s pretty startling that it’s become a feature of the Roberts Court that they save the most outrageous and infuriating usurpations of the Constitution for the last day they are in session and then disappear for months onto the planes and boats of the billionaire friends safe from public scrutiny.
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He’s probably on one to Jeff Bezos’s wedding as we speak
Every time the Supreme Court dumps a load of decisions right before heading off for vacation, I'm reminded of how Clarence Thomas marked the conclusion of one SCOTUS session by boarding a private jet to Indonesia where he and Ginny island-hopped aboard Harlan Crow's 162-foot superyacht:
Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
www.propublica.org
June 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
He’s probably on one to Jeff Bezos’s wedding as we speak
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I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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Note to media:
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.
June 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Note to media:
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.
“Trump says” is not a story. He says A LOT. He lies a lot. Do some sifting, discerning, contextualizing. Otherwise it’s just stenography. And you’re embarrassing yourselves.
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Please media. Educate and inform Americans.
I cannot say often enough that for all his narcissistic swanning about the stage "agonizing" about "his" decision, the Constitution flatly forbids Trump from attacking a sovereign country that has not attacked the US without obtaining congressional consent.
1/2 Marker of our times:
Public discuss has normalized idea that whatever is churning around in Trump's mind can, *w no restraint or involvement from anyone else,* plunge world into recession ("my tariffs") or major war (Iran)
And that he'll make "reveal" of his whim something like 'Survivor.'
Public discuss has normalized idea that whatever is churning around in Trump's mind can, *w no restraint or involvement from anyone else,* plunge world into recession ("my tariffs") or major war (Iran)
And that he'll make "reveal" of his whim something like 'Survivor.'
June 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Please media. Educate and inform Americans.
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This is bad. Republicans have fixed the contempt provision in the billionaire bailout bill so bond has to cover the costs. It can’t be $1 anymore. This will neutralize the court’s ability to hold Trump in contempt, and only rich people will be able to file injunctions against the government.
As I just flagged, this has been replaced with something which is arguably worse; requiring that basically every plaintiff seeking a preliminary injunction against the federal government pay millions or billions of dollars in "security" to pay for "costs" to the federal government if they later win.
June 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is bad. Republicans have fixed the contempt provision in the billionaire bailout bill so bond has to cover the costs. It can’t be $1 anymore. This will neutralize the court’s ability to hold Trump in contempt, and only rich people will be able to file injunctions against the government.
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Once again, it seems to me that when a court finds the president is doing something wildly unconstitutional, it is dangerous and unhealthy that we default to “but let him keep doing it until multiple layers of review all agree.”
An appeals court allowed President Trump, for now, to keep the California National Guard deployed in response to protests in Los Angeles, blocking a federal judge’s move just hours earlier that ordered the Trump administration to return control of the troops to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Appeals court says Trump can keep California National Guard deployed for now
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit blocks a federal judge’s earlier order to return control of the troops to California.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Once again, it seems to me that when a court finds the president is doing something wildly unconstitutional, it is dangerous and unhealthy that we default to “but let him keep doing it until multiple layers of review all agree.”
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Put this on a billboard.
More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.
June 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Put this on a billboard.
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“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾
MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.”
ICE: “The whole country is our property.”
No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?
MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.”
ICE: “The whole country is our property.”
No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?
June 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾
MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.”
ICE: “The whole country is our property.”
No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?
MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.”
ICE: “The whole country is our property.”
No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?
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What happened today to a united States Senator is outrageous. And the so-called justifications from the Administration are total BS. Here’s why
June 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
What happened today to a united States Senator is outrageous. And the so-called justifications from the Administration are total BS. Here’s why
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Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.”
This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
June 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.”
This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more
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I prefer Senators who don’t tell people fearing losing their healthcare that they’re “going to die.”
May 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I prefer Senators who don’t tell people fearing losing their healthcare that they’re “going to die.”
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Donald is creating a database of private personal information about every American -- literally hundreds of data points each. This is a far deeper and more dangerous breach of privacy than just about anything we've seen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
May 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Donald is creating a database of private personal information about every American -- literally hundreds of data points each. This is a far deeper and more dangerous breach of privacy than just about anything we've seen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
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If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.
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Thread: You can see why years ago that certain members of Congress did not want then Professor Warren to head up the consumer protection agency . . .
WARREN: Can POTUS legally tell the IRS to change someone's nonprofit status?
BILLY LONG: I'm not able to answer
WARREN: You can't read these words and tell me what those words say?!
LONG: I can read the statute and I did
WARREN: Then tell me what they mean!
BILLY LONG: I'm not able to answer
WARREN: You can't read these words and tell me what those words say?!
LONG: I can read the statute and I did
WARREN: Then tell me what they mean!
May 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thread: You can see why years ago that certain members of Congress did not want then Professor Warren to head up the consumer protection agency . . .
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I am trying very hard not to break things right now after seeing the Secretary of DHS indicate she doesn’t understand a legal concept so essential to the principles of a free society it dates as far back as the MAGNA CARTA.
May 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I am trying very hard not to break things right now after seeing the Secretary of DHS indicate she doesn’t understand a legal concept so essential to the principles of a free society it dates as far back as the MAGNA CARTA.
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One of the single best predictors of a functioning free society is social trust, your willingness to trust people you don’t really know.We’ve seen that plummeting. Nobody trusts the government. They don’t trust the media. Most importantly, they don’t trust each other.
www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
Todd Rose knows your private opinions
“It seems pretty obvious that a free society doesn’t really function if we just can’t even say what we think,” the think tank founder told Semafor.
www.semafor.com
May 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
One of the single best predictors of a functioning free society is social trust, your willingness to trust people you don’t really know.We’ve seen that plummeting. Nobody trusts the government. They don’t trust the media. Most importantly, they don’t trust each other.
www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
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On Democracy with Fred Wellman - A tornado tells a bigger story
My town was struck by historic tornadoes yesterday and a storm is coming for you too.
My town was struck by historic tornadoes yesterday and a storm is coming for you too.
A tornado tells a bigger story
My town was struck by historic tornadoes yesterday and a storm is coming for you too.
fpwellman.substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
On Democracy with Fred Wellman - A tornado tells a bigger story
My town was struck by historic tornadoes yesterday and a storm is coming for you too.
My town was struck by historic tornadoes yesterday and a storm is coming for you too.
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NAFTA: My Front-Row Seat to the Race to the Bottom…
Let me tell you what NAFTA looked like from the inside—because I lived it. Americans didn’t just lose jobs to Mexico, jobs were lost to China too.
When it was ratified in 1994, I was the head designer at a company called Z Cavaricci.
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Let me tell you what NAFTA looked like from the inside—because I lived it. Americans didn’t just lose jobs to Mexico, jobs were lost to China too.
When it was ratified in 1994, I was the head designer at a company called Z Cavaricci.
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May 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
NAFTA: My Front-Row Seat to the Race to the Bottom…
Let me tell you what NAFTA looked like from the inside—because I lived it. Americans didn’t just lose jobs to Mexico, jobs were lost to China too.
When it was ratified in 1994, I was the head designer at a company called Z Cavaricci.
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Let me tell you what NAFTA looked like from the inside—because I lived it. Americans didn’t just lose jobs to Mexico, jobs were lost to China too.
When it was ratified in 1994, I was the head designer at a company called Z Cavaricci.
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A late note on Judge Howell’s ruling striking down the Perkins Coie exec order. Key point is in 1st sentence: “No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the [this] one.” Trump apologists can change the subject or stay silent, but can’t deny she’s right. ...
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May 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A late note on Judge Howell’s ruling striking down the Perkins Coie exec order. Key point is in 1st sentence: “No American President has ever before issued executive orders like the [this] one.” Trump apologists can change the subject or stay silent, but can’t deny she’s right. ...
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